“…In order to solve , we have defined two convex sets in the (2 n + m )‐dimensional space , denoted by [ u ; v ] the vertical concatenation of , with , and for all , D is a diagonal matrix of order 2 n + m , whose n first elements are 1's, the next m coincide with those of D m , and the last n elements are those of D n . By means of a direct application of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT) conditions (Luenberger, 1986) to the problem it is possible to prove (see Scolnik et al, 2008b) that this is equivalent to . That observation led us to use the IOP algorithm for solving , applying projections scheme between the sets and , as in the original development in Scolnik et al (2008b), replacing the computation of the exact projections onto by suitable incomplete or approximate projections (Scolnik et al, 2008a).…”